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Is he the one who gave final approval of the anonymous login-wall, which pops up after 2 screens of scrolling in Twitter? If so, good riddance, as that is an i

by pdq 4y ago

Is he the one who gave final approval of the anonymous login-wall, which pops up after 2 screens of scrolling in Twitter? If so, good riddance, as that is an incredibly hostile user pattern. BTW, maybe it's purely coincidence, but after refreshing my browser cache it seems to have gone away today.

carabiner 4y ago
Twitter will never succeed without satisfying the old school whims of HN users.
- NelsonMinar 4y ago
  Really the company started failing when they turned off Jabber.
  - Spivak 4y ago
    Really went downhill when they turned off SMS support.
- vdnkh 4y ago
  "Without RSS Twitter will never succeed"
bozhark 4y ago
Reddit does the same thing now if you use their website. Good thing hardly anyone uses their website to read their website
user3939382 4y ago
Nothing could be worse than the crap reddit has been doing for the last year or so to force users (or from their perspective, useds, as rms likes to say) to download its app or login. First they outright blocked viewing posts unless logged in, then they disabled that, and now brought it back so that random posts are blocked from viewing with a message "This hasn't been reviewed" whatever that means. Someone at reddit said, hey we can't be honest with users that we're trying to force them to use our app, we need to lie to them while we're doing it!
- nickstinemates 4y ago
  Agree nothing more hostile than going to reddit on a mobile device these days.
  - simmerup 4y ago
    I ended up buying a blocker to block Reddit on my device because of the pain. It’s a shame I couldn’t stop visiting the website just from willpower though.
    - nickstinemates 4y ago
      pihole deploy, blacklist reddit.com what's there to buy? :)
      - simmerup 4y ago
        When you’re on an apple iPhone, everything’s to buy
  - kenrik 4y ago
    Maybe Elon buys Reddit next /s
  - throwaway427 4y ago
    Apollo has the ability to intercept clicks on reddit links and open them in the app. It works pretty well.
- azemetre 4y ago
  I'm kinda hoping that reddit will finally remove old.reddit and the old design, not that I think the new design is good but it would finally make me drop reddit from my social media addiction.
  - orthecreedence 4y ago
    Yeah the new reddit is unusable. Not borderline unusable, but like actually useless. I can't believe they released it and I can't believe people actually use it.
phailhaus 4y ago
Not for me, doesn't look like it's changed. But also, it is hilariously unlikely that Parag went "hey I really hate the login wall, you're fired!!"
fckgw 4y ago
If you click the login button, then click the X, it makes that popup go away. Still annoying but just a little lifehack for ya.
gordon_freeman 4y ago
I would be very happy if it (asking to login) is gone. If that's the case then I can keep being away from social media accounts and still casually surf twitter.
cronix 4y ago
That's exactly what got me to use nitter.net to browser twitter. No forced logins. No time limits. No trending section. Most javascript is disabled (you have to click a button to enable it to even play videos). Just tweets.
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BetaDeltaAlpha 4y ago
I got hit with this wall halfway down the thread, really resonated with this comment.
rhplus 4y ago
Is he the one who gave final approval of the anonymous login-wall From the second Tweet in the thread: Twitter’s DAU has grown by over 87% since Q2 2018 and our team has shipped bold and exciting new evolutions to the product You can't measure DAU precisely without logged-in users! So... yeah, that's probably a big part of how they got their DAU metric to grow 87%...
LegitShady 4y ago
its the reason i completely ignore twitter now. its not a site to reach out to the publicc its a site to communicate to a small subset of logged in users.
- Spivak 4y ago
  I think as far as Twitter is concerned if you never bothered to create an account and your only use of Twitter was being linked to a tweet and then closing the tab you were already ignoring them.
  - LegitShady 4y ago
    I created an account. I followed some people. They told me it looked like I was a bot and needed to send them a scan of my ID. I laughed and just favorited the few people I wanted to follow. Now I can't even browse their stuff without getting the popups blocking it So twitter is dead to me.
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by pdq 4y ago

carabiner 4y ago

Twitter will never succeed without satisfying the old school whims of HN users.

NelsonMinar 4y ago
Really the company started failing when they turned off Jabber.
- Spivak 4y ago
  Really went downhill when they turned off SMS support.
vdnkh 4y ago
"Without RSS Twitter will never succeed"

bozhark 4y ago

Reddit does the same thing now if you use their website. Good thing hardly anyone uses their website to read their website

user3939382 4y ago

Nothing could be worse than the crap reddit has been doing for the last year or so to force users (or from their perspective, useds, as rms likes to say) to download its app or login. First they outright blocked viewing posts unless logged in, then they disabled that, and now brought it back so that random posts are blocked from viewing with a message "This hasn't been reviewed" whatever that means. Someone at reddit said, hey we can't be honest with users that we're trying to force them to use our app, we need to lie to them while we're doing it!

nickstinemates 4y ago
Agree nothing more hostile than going to reddit on a mobile device these days.
- simmerup 4y ago
  I ended up buying a blocker to block Reddit on my device because of the pain. It’s a shame I couldn’t stop visiting the website just from willpower though.
  - nickstinemates 4y ago
    pihole deploy, blacklist reddit.com what's there to buy? :)
    - simmerup 4y ago
      When you’re on an apple iPhone, everything’s to buy
- kenrik 4y ago
  Maybe Elon buys Reddit next /s
- throwaway427 4y ago
  Apollo has the ability to intercept clicks on reddit links and open them in the app. It works pretty well.
azemetre 4y ago
I'm kinda hoping that reddit will finally remove old.reddit and the old design, not that I think the new design is good but it would finally make me drop reddit from my social media addiction.
- orthecreedence 4y ago
  Yeah the new reddit is unusable. Not borderline unusable, but like actually useless. I can't believe they released it and I can't believe people actually use it.

phailhaus 4y ago

Not for me, doesn't look like it's changed. But also, it is hilariously unlikely that Parag went "hey I really hate the login wall, you're fired!!"

fckgw 4y ago

If you click the login button, then click the X, it makes that popup go away. Still annoying but just a little lifehack for ya.

gordon_freeman 4y ago

I would be very happy if it (asking to login) is gone. If that's the case then I can keep being away from social media accounts and still casually surf twitter.

cronix 4y ago

That's exactly what got me to use nitter.net to browser twitter. No forced logins. No time limits. No trending section. Most javascript is disabled (you have to click a button to enable it to even play videos). Just tweets.

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BetaDeltaAlpha 4y ago

I got hit with this wall halfway down the thread, really resonated with this comment.

rhplus 4y ago

Is he the one who gave final approval of the anonymous login-wall From the second Tweet in the thread: Twitter’s DAU has grown by over 87% since Q2 2018 and our team has shipped bold and exciting new evolutions to the product You can't measure DAU precisely without logged-in users! So... yeah, that's probably a big part of how they got their DAU metric to grow 87%...

LegitShady 4y ago

its the reason i completely ignore twitter now. its not a site to reach out to the publicc its a site to communicate to a small subset of logged in users.

Spivak 4y ago
I think as far as Twitter is concerned if you never bothered to create an account and your only use of Twitter was being linked to a tweet and then closing the tab you were already ignoring them.
- LegitShady 4y ago
  I created an account. I followed some people. They told me it looked like I was a bot and needed to send them a scan of my ID. I laughed and just favorited the few people I wanted to follow. Now I can't even browse their stuff without getting the popups blocking it So twitter is dead to me.

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